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Thematics

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These five thematic journeys provide signposts amid diverse contents on this website, from the conviviality of the dinner table to the turbulent uncertainties of our current times.

Arka Kinari (May/June 2022)

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A sign of life from Arka Kinari, sailing through Indonesia until October 2022.

Anarchive

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The Anarchive looks at FoAM’s multi-decade existence from different vantage points, to unearth or revisit things that can have generative potential for the here-and-now and the yet-to-come.

Deep Steward @ Triennale di Milano

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15 July

Post Glacial Rebound

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A soundwalk to encourage intimate connections with the island of Seili in the Archipelago Sea.

NPT x CAA: How do you know what you know? Exercises in Attentiveness

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12 August

Life, life support and the afterlives of (im)possible worlds

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How can stories, scenarios and situations enhance agency amid chaotic circumstances?

Resonances

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Resonances is a series of sonic propositions. Listening to the sounds of the Earth unfolding at different timescales. Attuning to matter in its myriad forms and flows. Paying attention to a multitude of voices, omnipresent but often too quiet to notice amidst the noise of human activity.

Arka Kinari

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Subversive, immersive and partially submerged, Arka Kinari is a multimedia performance staged from the deck of a traditional sailing ship. Using live music and cinematic visuals Arka Kinari imagines life after the carbon economy, resilience to climate change, and re-engagement with our last great commons—the sea.

Institute for Experiments with Business

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The Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex) is an emergent research entity, situated within the FoAM network. Its interest is to collect, conduct and report on experiments in and with business, including new and wild takes on organisational staples such as budgets, contracts, organisational form, business coaching and the business plan.

Machine Wilderness - ARTIS

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An artist-in-residency programme at ARTIS Royal Zoo in Amsterdam, exploring how human technologies can act as bridges to animal and plant worlds. Could our technologies be technologies of environmental empathy, kinship and solidarity?

ARTIS zoo residency Heather Barnett

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Heather Barnett is looking into ant behaviour at the zoo during the Machine Wilderness residency programme, here's what happened next:

ARTIS zoo residency Driessens / Verstappen

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Driessens and Verstappen bring their Spotter (AI) to ARTIS Amsterdam Royal zoo during the Machine Wilderness residency programme, here's what happened next:

5 Things with FoAM

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Superject

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Superject is a card game grounded in the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. It's a tool for questioning, prototyping, discussing, and feeling the world anew. 

Certainty Ltd.

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Certainty Ltd. offers support for personal and organisational transitions, including strategic unplanning, critical uncertainty diagnostics, VUCA therapy, ambient foresight, and bespoke situational awareness.

Feral Business Coaching

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feral business coaching is merging materials and understandings from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY and design.

Becoming Realists of a Larger Reality

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A guided tour along FoAM's interconnected paths through the larger reality.

Dark Arts, Grey Areas and Other Contingencies

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How do we contend with economic forces of change that create contingencies, influence our lives, affect our livelihoods?